Sentence examples for it was an exception from inspiring English sources
Apple, thanks to Jobs, was an exception to this rule, but it was an exception to a lot of rules.
The question is whether he can prove to conservatives that it was an exception not the rule in his governing philosophy before votes start getting cast for president.
Even legal scholars who applauded the new style evident in Mr. Bo's trial recognize that it was an exception and not necessarily a model.
WHEN the collapse of Enron cost employees and investors billions of dollars, corporate executives like Jeffrey R. Immelt, the new head of General Electric, rushed to criticize Enron, suggesting it was an exception.
But it was an exception in this village and the one next door, Artemida, where the death toll accounts for nearly half the 63 people now reported dead from Greece's worst fires in more than a century.
"The question of whether it was an exception to the rule or representing some sort of regime shift in the way ocean currents are operating is a pretty major question," said Jeff Ardron, director of the High Seas Program for the Marine Conservation Institute in Washington, who has been tracking the issue.
And I hate admitting it, but I was an exception.
San Antonio recycles almost all of its water, but it's an exception — only 7 percent of water in the United States is reused.
It turns out I was an exception". Oh, oh.
